Excising muscle and abdominal wall to reach oviduct
Exposing and tagging oviduct
Removing egg # 2
Removing egg # 1
Removing remaining egg
Closing oviduct and muscle wall with a precise running dissovable suture
Removed four infertile eggs in total. Two were fused together believed to be cause of egg binding
Nine inch incision closed in mid-section of snake using non-dissolving mattress sutures
Four inch incision closed in last third of snake using non-dissolving mattress sutures
Full recovery from anesthetic took two hours and 35 minutes. She is doing well but, unfortunately, will not be able to breed again. Skin sutures to be removed in three weeks. Update to follow.
Wrapped Up in Reptiles, Box 444, Carseland, Alberta, Canada, T0J 0M0
under direction and assistance of Annette Thompson
Wrapped Up in Reptiles
May 8, 2002
This page was last updated on: August 12, 2008
Sedated with ketamine 50 mg per kg of body weight injected intermuscular 15 minutes to half an hour for full sedation. Masked and maintained on isoflourine anesthetic for preparation and surgery. Approximate surgery time one hour 45 minutes.
